Altered Frame - Sean - a little bit ugly

I nearly laughed out loud when Sean saw this frame. He said - "mummy, this is very nice but my photo is a little bit ugly." I don't know about it being ugly but I love this photo of you Sean. It really has captured your personality - a pinch of mischievious, a touch of cheekiness and very very cute in spite of missing 3 front teeth.

Materials used in this project : Basic Grey's Grandpa's Kitchen paper, Ikea frame, Making Memories Chipboard Letters, Ranger Acrylic Dabber and some buttons and blue ric rac.

Altered Frame - How Zheng

Don't you just love IKEA? Well, I certainly do. Just finished altering 2 IKEA frames. This frame is for How Zheng, Saw Lan's son. I used the Basic grey's Grandpa's kitchen papers for both the background and foreground. Cut some paisleys from the same paper series as embellishment at the bottom of the photo. A quick coat of acrylic paint on the frame, glued some buttons and added a glitter letter "Z" chipboard that Saw Lan has given me gavew theframe a whole new look- don't you think?

Altered Wooden Box - A Preview

I bought some Prima flowers yesterday from Valerie and they came in a box. Thought it would be fun to try and alter the box and use the Prima velvet flower that came in it to adorn it. I decided to use the colour theme of pinks and browns. Hence, painted the box pink and use brown ric-racs to decorate the box.

I will make an accordion album for the inside of the box and the cover of the velvet brown Prima flower will be on the cover of the album. To add interest to the box, I added some scrolls chipboard from the Fancy Pants Designs. Painted it in brown to match the colour scheme, and stuck it onto the window of the box to create a floating effect.

I have yet to scrap the album inside but this is as I said just a preview.

Altered Tin - Tools

I went to visit my friend, Valerie today. Incidentally Valerie is the owner of http://www.scrap-n-crop.com/ website. Valerie is one of the few Malaysians who are dealing in scrapbooking products. She has very kindly invited me to be on her design team which I gladly accepted.

As I was leaving, I spotted an altered tin that Val made with one of her kid's milk tin. Hence, I asked her for one for my first assignment. I was brimming with ideas as I left her place. Darn, I should have taken more than 1 tin.

As I was eager and excited - couldn't wait to start - I decided on a simple design. Firstly, I use paper from the latest Basic Grey Collection - Infuse. Then I made chipboard handles and punched holes with my trusty Crop-a-Dile. Then I laced matching leather strips together at both sides of the tin. I decided to employ this method as the circumference of the tin was more than 12 inches. The beauty of this technique is that the whole tin is being held together by the lacing on both sides!

I have decided to use the tin to store my scissors, rulers, etc for scrapbooking and thus named it "tools". I dabbed the letters with The Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Dabbers Range - Red Pepper Colour and a coating of the 3d lacquer completed my whole tin. I had a huge smile when I completed this - most satisfying design. Recycling an old milk tin is really good for the soul and of course - the environment!

Mini album - wall hanging of How Yee n Zheng

Can't believe its been 4 days since I last blogged. Where did the time go? Had a busy weekend. Had visitors from both Japan and Singapore. I was tired with all the enetertaining but boy it was really worth it! It was great to see all my friends and renew friendships. Had a ball!!!

I have been very restless this morning. I think I have a case of the scrapbooking withdrawals. I haven't scrapped in 4 days and I did not miss it till this morning. All of a sudden, this wall hanging came to me.

Saw Lan had called me to let me know that she was in the process of renovating her new house. This will be a perfect gift for her as she will be able to hang it in one of the boy's room. Luckily, I had her kids' pictures on hand and was glad that I could have a scrapbooking fix.

All I did was to cover with the chipboards with Gin-X paper, stamped some boy words and used Sizzix alphabars for my titles on each board. Used some lime green rick rack for each word that I thought best described the boys. I completed the layouts by using some velvet ribbon.

I hung it together by using album rings. Used my trusty Crop-a-dile to make the holes to attach each board to each other. The boards are tilting to one side but hey it's handmade and thus not perfect. Please excuse the photos being on horizontal. I have tried to rotate them but they are still in this position??? Sigh... Very technologically-challenged.

Hope that Saw Lan likes it.

The Jammies Twins

Sabby, Yukie and her mom are finally here. Yukie bought the same pyjamas for both Sabbya and Clarissa - now they are the "Jammies Twins". Don't they look cute together?

Journal- China Trip

We left for Beijing on the 26th May, 2007. It proved to be such a memorable trip. I loved all the historical sites, namely the Forbidden Palace, Summer Palace (another wower!!!), The Great Wall, the Ming Tombs and the Tianamen Square. We were very surprised that Beijing was so developed although I must say that the attitude of the people was less to be desired. They were trying to scam us the minute we opened our months and they noticed that we were foreigners, sigh... That really left a black mark against Beijing though. Hubby was so put off China cos' we had to haggle and argue about payment everyday and it was exhausting! In addition, we were told that our prices were already better than the prices that they charge the caucasians - they audacity!!!

On the plus note, we stayed at the Beijing Crowne Plaza at Wangfujing. Must say that I was very impressed with their service. Kudos to all the staff there and a big thank you for making our trip pleasant in the hotel. I would definitely recommend Beijing if you are into the culture and historical sites. We would definitely do the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an soon. But I would first have to convince the hubby.